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UN: Ban takes the lead
The United Nations Security Council has confirmed that at 9.30am on Monday October 9 it will meet to nominate formally the next secretary general — and it will have been a genuine process of elimination. On Monday, the first council straw poll revealed the vetoes hitherto held up the delegates’ sleeves, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon had 14 votes to encourage his candidacy, and only one "no opinion".
